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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995
LOT 140
Molyneux & Cope, 44 Devonshire Street, London, No. 439, with London hallmarks for 1821. Fine and unusual silver hunting cased watch with special escapement and temperature compensation.
CHF 2,000 - 2,500
C. Four body "consular" with fixed cuvette and hinged bezel, polished cover and back, marked "'F. C." (Thomas Carpenter). D. Egg-shell enamel with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds. Gold " pear" hands. M. Hinged gilt brass full plate with cylindrical pillars, fusee with chain and maintaining power, duplex escapement, plain gilt brass three-arm balance, flat balance spring with regulator and unusual bimetallic compensaion curb on the index, diamond endstone. Signed on the movement. In very good condition. Diam. 55 mm.
